CARBO ANIMALIS
We think of this remedy for complaints found in scrofulous or venous
constitutions; hypertrophy; glandular enlargements.
Mental.–
Sadness and melancholy; not disposed to say much;
excessively merry.
Head.–
Heaviness of, especially of occiput; pain in, as if had
been blown to pieces, or were open. Has to hold the head to keep it from falling to pieces,
especially in damp weather. Red spotted face.
Mouth.–
Much looseness of teeth. Bitter taste in the morning,
going off after rising.
Ears.–
Ichorous discharge from the ears often accompanied by
swelling of the parotid gland; dull and confused hearing, especially where sounds appear to
come from some direction, but the patient can’t tell exactly where; ringing in the ears when
blowing the nose; humming and singing in.
Nose.–
Dry coryza in morning, going off in rising; tip of the
nose (it may be bluish or purplish, or may have a small tumor on the tip, etc.).
Larynx.–
Roughness and hoarseness in morning. Dry cough at
night.
Chest.–
Pleurisy assuming a typhoid character; sickly bluish
color of skin, expectoration puriform, often putrid in character. Far gone pleurisy. In
pleurisy where everything is cured but the stitch, and that remains. Green pus from chest.
Right side most liable, stitches in right side. Acts deeper and more lasting than Carb. veg.
Gastric.–
Repugnance to greasy food; eating meat causes
nausea; smoking produces nausea and repugnance to tobacco. Eructations taste of food which
had been eaten long time before. Stomach, contracting spasms of; clawing and griping in;
digestion is weak and the food causes distress; act of taking the food tires the patient
exceedingly, and often causes perspiration.
Abdomen.–
Distension of; audible rumbling in.
Stools and Anus.–
Stool scanty and delaying; pain in small of
back during. Varices much distended while walking, with burning pain; humor oozes out.
Constipation where the patient thinks the bowels will be moved, but only wind comes away.
Sexual.–
Female: Nausea of
pregnant females, coming on principally at night; faint and empty sensation in the pit of
the stomach is produced by nursing. Lochia become too thin, scanty and very offensive. (This remedy is especially adapted to these
symptoms when occurring in a scrofulous or venous constitution.) Menses are followed by great exhaustion. Leucorrhśa burning, biting, watery; while
walking, or standing. Uterine hćmorrhages where there is much affection of the glands.
Perineum.–
Affections of the perineum; viscid humor from;
oozing from, often accompanied with oozing from the rectum.
Skin.–
Spongy ulcers; copper-colored exanthema; fungus
hćmatodes; spongy excrescences; copper-colored spots. Painful nodosities.
Generalities.–
Right chest; mammć; axillć. Sensation as if
single parts were gone to sleep. Profuse night-sweat.
Worse.–
After shaving; during eating; lying on the side.
Remedies following:–
Arsen., Bellad.,
Bryon., Carb. veg., Pulsat., Phosphor., Silic., Sepia, Sulphur.
Antidotes:–
Nux vom., Arsen.
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